The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 3, sentence 4

The Prince returned to his room in despair; then the Princess Hyacinthia came to him once more changed into the likeness of a bee, and asked him, ‘Why so sad, Prince Milan?’

Who acts: Prince, Princess Hyacinthia · What happens: return, come, change, ask · To what, where: Prince, likeness

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Biter Bit, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Prince, Princess Hyacinthia), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Prince	det
2	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 returned	nsubj
3	returned	return	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 room	case
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 room	nmod:poss
6	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 returned	obl
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 despair	case
8	despair	despair	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 room	nmod
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 came	punct
10	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	14 came	advmod
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Hyacinthia	det
12	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 Hyacinthia	compound
13	Hyacinthia	Hyacinthia	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 came	nsubj
14	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 returned	conj
15	to	to	ADP	_	16 him	case
16	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 came	obl
17	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	18 more	advmod
18	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	19 changed	advmod
19	changed	change	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 came	advcl
20	into	into	ADP	_	22 likeness	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 likeness	det
22	likeness	likeness	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 changed	obl
23	of	of	ADP	_	25 bee	case
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 bee	det
25	bee	bee	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 likeness	nmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 asked	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 asked	cc
28	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 returned	conj
29	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 asked	iobj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 sad	punct
31	‘	'	PUNCT	_	34 sad	punct
32	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	34 sad	advmod
33	so	so	ADV	_	34 sad	advmod
34	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 asked	ccomp
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 Milan	punct
36	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	37 Milan	compound
37	Milan	Milan	PROPN	Number=Sing	34 sad	obl
38	?	?	PUNCT	_	34 sad	punct
39	’	'	PUNCT	_	34 sad	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	return	past	the Prince			to Prince's room in despair result	vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to room=Result
2	come	past	the Princess Hyacinthia	Prince	then		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to he=Initial_Location
3	change	participle	the Princess Hyacinthia not said here			into the likeness of a bee result	vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.result»: agent=Patient into likeness=Result
4	ask speech: ask	past	the Prince not said here	Prince			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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